Paintings 2018

​Resilience

A New York Times article titled "Shorebirds, the World's Greatest Travelers, Face Extinction" written by the director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, John Fitzpatrick, inspired me to create this piece. These far-traveling birds may look comedic at first glance, but they are remarkable in their ability to travel distances spanning across the globe in a matter of days. Their decline is devastating and demands our attention because we, too, depend upon shorelines and bodies of water that are in danger due to the systemic illness of urbanization.

Fitzpatrick writes: "The global collapse of migratory shorebird populations is much more than a calamity facing a group of exquisitely evolved birds. It also tells us that our global network of aquatic systems is fraying. If water is the world’s lifeblood and aquatic systems are its connective tissue, then the decline of the planet’s most spectacular global travelers signals a systemic illness that demands our attention and action."